MOSCOW. – Armenian businesswoman Irina Ziroyan was killed in Moscow near the restaurant Tanuki.

According to the restaurant employees, the 52-year-old business lady ended her dinner and hurried to a business meeting. However, when she came out of the restaurant with her bodyguard, she was shot dead at the scene. Her bodyguard is critical, Life News reports.

Ziroyan was the Director General of Varshavsky Trade Center, network of Tanuki Japanese restaurants, as well as a beauty salon. Law enforcers claim the crime looks like a contract killing, RIA Novosti reports.